The last week has been kind of crazy being back actually working for a living. I’ve tried to update here when I can, but time has been tight. This will be my last Scrap Metal Report and my last post. However, this isn’t the end of my metal blogging. As I’ve said before, blogging has renewed my faith in metal and I want to keep updated on it and have an outlet for that. For that purpose I started my new, personally owned blog called HookInMouth.net. If you would like to continue to read my metal bloggings, you’re more than …read more

How the hell I forgot this in the last, I don’t know. A new Suffocation song is streaming on their myspace. The new song, titled Cataclysmic Purification will of course be on the upcoming Blood Oath album. Enjoy the sweet sounds of Suffocation at Myspace.
Image Via Nuclear Blast Records

Fresh off of the Myspace blog, Suffocation have revealed that they will be releasing three different formats of their upcoming Blood Oath album due out on July 14th. You can buy the standard release, special edition Nuclear Blast “Mail order” exclusive from the Nuclear Blast Webstore or download the album with iTunes. The special edition and iTunes digital album will have extra tracks and all sorts of goodies come with the special edition. Below is more information and track listings.

The early to mid 1990’s delivered a harsh blow the heavy metal. Grunge overshadowed heavy metal but thankfully did us all a favor by killing the glam-rock era. While a lot of metal bands continued to release solid metal albums, they still had grunge to deal with in both marketing and touring.
I was in my mid teens, working as a dishwasher during the time. My coworkers were all in to the grunge thing and were neo-hippies to boot. We had a prep room where we would prep food and had a cd player in there to listen to …read more

Suffocation’s new album Blood Oath is looking at a July 7th release on Nuclear Blast Records. They’re rapping up this leg of the Blood Apocalypse tour with Whitechapel, Veil Of Maya and Decrepit Birth this Saturday. What their plans after that are, I don’t know. I think they have a handful of dates with Carcass again. If you haven’t done so already, check out Pictures and my interview with front-man Frank Mullen from last months show. Below is the track list for Blood Oath.

The line-up for the Summer Slaughter North American tour was announced not too long ago, but there wasn’t really any dates confirmed at the time. Below are the dates from June 5th to July 3rd. More dates will be announced in the near future. The line-up is as follows: Necrophagist co-headlining with Suffocation, Ensiferum (from June 28th to July 21st), Darkest Hour, Winds Of Plague, Dying Fetus, Born Of Osiris, Origin, Beneath The Massacre (From June 5th to June 26th), After The Burial, Decrepit Birth (From June 5th to June 26th), and Blackguard (June 28th to July 21st). 
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Here’s a little taste of what I got to see a couple of weeks ago. Suffocation along with Decrepit Birth played Oragevale, California on the 29th along with Psycroptic, Veil Of Meya and Whitechapel. One Blabbermouth commenter, “Harry Ballzonya” stated:
I could have done without White Crapel and Veil of Spooge, they did NOT belong on this fucking bill, nor does any band with cry shield haircuts and big cock rings in their ears.

I kind of agree. Check out the videos. Not the best video footage, bit it’s not the worst and the audio isn’t too bad either.
 

Suffocation isn’t new to the Death Metal scene. Having been around for nearly 20 years, they’re one of the bands that pioneered and helped blaze the trail with countless other bands to help create the scene of today. Even after releasing amazing album after amazing album, they just never seemed to get their big break like some other death metal bands. They’re still big and they still have a huge, mainly underground following but they just don’t get the attention they deserve. Perhaps their next release, Blood Oath will change all that.
On St. Patrick’s day I had a chance …read more

There wasn’t many updates yesterday for good reason. I had to attend the Suffocation Blood Apocalypse Tour last night. I haven’t banged my head that hard and long since my early 20’s and I’m feeling it this morning.
Before the show I had a quick interview with Frank Mullen of Suffocation. I’ll have to transcribe that and get it up later this week.
The venue wasn’t nearly as full as it was the last time they played on the Exhumed To Consume tour, but it filled up pretty good once Suffocation took the stage. I was also pretty impressed with the …read more

The local band that opened the show, Malebolgia, don’t want to be associated with anything ‘Core. That and they kick ass.
Veil Of Maya is not my thing, but they played well and the crowd liked them.
Bill Robinson of Decrepit Birth (pictured above) is the coolest dude in the world.
Whitechapel’s hardcore fans worship them.
If you like death metal and you never see Suffocation live, you might as well die a virgin.

Oh yeah…and I’m pretty sure I have a neck injury too.
I will elaborate more tomorrow.
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